Isocrates bemoaned this city's fate in his 14th oration, after its citizens fled Theban domination  for refuge in Athens in 373 BC. This city was the site of the cult of Hellenic Homonoia, as well as the Eleutheria games. It gives its name to an oath – probably specious - in which the Greeks undertook not to rebuild sanctuaries destroyed by the Persians. Mardonius retreated to this Boeotian city situated between Mt. Cithaeron and the Asopus river after his offer of an Athenian alliance was rejected. It was there that the remaining Persians on the Greek mainland were defeated by an alliance of Greek city states fielding north of 30,000 hoplite
Isocrates bemoaned this city's fate in his 14th oration, after its citizens fled Theban domination  for refuge in Athens in 373 BC. This city was the site of the cult of Hellenic Homonoia, as well as the Eleutheria games. It gives its name to an oath – probably specious - in which the Greeks undertook not to rebuild sanctuaries destroyed by the Persians. Mardonius retreated to this Boeotian city situated between Mt. Cithaeron and the Asopus river after his offer of an Athenian alliance was rejected. It was there that the remaining Persians on the Greek mainland were defeated by an alliance of Greek city states fielding north of 30,000 hoplites under the overall command of the Spartan Pausanias on the same day as a counter-attack on the Ionian mainland at Mycale initiated the reconquest of eastern Greek cities. For ten points, name the site of the decisive land victory of the Greek alliance over the Persians in 479 BC.
Isocrates bemoaned this city's fate in his 14th oration, after its citizens fled Theban domination  for refuge in Athens in 373 BC.
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